This solid is also sometimes called a rhombic prism.
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It is acknowledged however that Robert Ammann first proposed the construction of rhombic prisms which is the three-dimensional model of Shechtman's quasicrystals.
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Six cells project onto rhombic prisms, which are laid out in the hexagonal prism in a way analogous to how the faces of the 3D cube project onto 6 rhombs in a hexagonal envelope under vertex-first projection.
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In the orthorhombic system there is a second choice of crystal axes that results in a unit cell with the shape of a right rhombic prism, although this axis setting is very rarely used; this is because the rectangular two-dimensional base layers can also be described with rhombic axes.